FGF-23 Levels before and after Renal Transplantation by Domniki Economidou, Spyros Dovas, Aikaterini Papagianni, Panagiotis Pateinakis, Dimitrios Memmos

“…Intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH), calcium (Ca), P, 25(OH)VitD, and 1,25(OH)2VitD levels were measured at the same time periods. Renal threshold phosphate concentration (TmPO4/GFR) was also calculated at 3, 6, and 12 months posttransplantation. …”
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An Artificial Neural Network Developed in MATLAB-Simulink for Reconstruction a Distorted Secondary Current Waveform. Part 2 by Yu. V. Rumiantsev, F. A. Romaniuk

“…This causes underestimation of the calculated RMS value of the secondary current compared to its true value; also, it causes a trip time delay or even to a relay protection devices operation failure. …”
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Establishment and Validation of a Gene Signature-Based Prognostic Model to Improve Survival Prediction in Adrenocortical Carcinoma Patients by Xiaoqin Ge, Zhenzhen Liu, Xuehua Jiao, Xueyan Yin, Xiujie Wang, Gengxu Li

“…By combining the signature with clinicopathological features, a decision tree was generated to improve risk stratification, and a nomogram was constructed to personalize risk prediction. Time-dependent receiver operating characteristic (tROC) and calibration analysis were performed to evaluate the predictive power and accuracy. …”
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Bibliometric Mapping of Scientific Production and Conceptual Structure of Cyber Sextortion in Cybersecurity by Fani Moses Radebe, Kennedy Njenga

“…This study reviewed research developments on cyber sextortion progressively over time by looking at scientific productions, thematic developments, scholars’ contributions, and the future thematic trajectory. …”
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Staphylococcus Derived from Desert and Its Solidified Ability on Aeolian Sandy Soil by Yu Gao, De Yao, Cuiyan Wang, Yanxing Wang, Chi Li

“…In this paper, the autogenous strain was applied to the surface of the desert for the first time to form an in situ microbial mineralization crust. …”
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Smart Filter Performance Monitoring System by Chenxing Pei, Weiqi Chen, Qisheng Ou, David Y. H. Pui

“…Here, we propose and prototype a smart filter performance monitoring system that costs less than 200 U.S. dollars and can report filtration efficiency, differential pressure, temperature, and RH (relative humidity) in real time. Three case studies are presented: an air purifier, a teaching building HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) system, and a large-scale air cleaning system. …”
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Characterization of patients operated on for non-syndromic craniosynostosis. Villa Clara, 2018-2022 by Miguel Ángel Cruz Díaz, Ángel Serafín Camacho Gómez, Carlos Javier Artiles Rivero, Ramón Sarduy Arana

“…Knowledge about its management is of vital importance to intervene with treatment in a timely manner.<br /><strong>Objective</strong>: to characterize the patients operated on for non-syndromic craniosynostosis.…”
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About a concept of creating a social network users information aggregation and data processing system by L. V. Rudikova, O. R. Myslivec

“…The developed universal system is based on the information technology of data warehousing, and it has the following aspects: an expandable complex subject area, the integration of stored data that come from various sources, the invariance of stored data in time with mandatory labels, relatively high data stability, the search for necessary trade-off in data redundancy, modularity of individual system units, fl and extensibility of the architecture, high security requirements vulnerable data.The proposed system organizes the process of collecting data and filling the database from external sources. …”
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Estimating the trend of COVID-19 in Norway by combining multiple surveillance indicators. by Gunnar Rø, Trude Marie Lyngstad, Elina Seppälä, Siri Nærland Skodvin, Lill Trogstad, Richard Aubrey White, Arve Paulsen, Trine Hessevik Paulsen, Trine Skogset Ofitserova, Petter Langlete, Elisabeth Henie Madslien, Karin Nygård, Birgitte Freisleben de Blasio

“…We estimated growth rates by using a negative binomial regression method and aligned the growth rates in time to hospital admissions by maximising correlations. …”
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Artificial intelligence in the diagnosis of endocrine disorders: A focus on diabetes and thyroid diseases by Kimi Milić Marko, Sinanović Šćepan, Prodović Tanja, Ilanković Tanja

“…The conclusion emphasizes the potential of artificial intelligence to advance the diagnosis of endocrine disorders and contribute to the development of sustainable, high-precision solutions in the healthcare system. At the same time, challenges such as ethical concerns, integration into clinical practice, and the need for data standardization are discussed. …”
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Expectant Management of a Critically Ill Pregnant Patient with COVID-19 with Good Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes by Farah Alsayyed, Victoria Hastings, Sanford Lederman

“…In the face of COVID-19, a new disease with unclear maternal and fetal outcomes to date, a collaboration of care teams is essential to navigate through the challenging decisions made, including timing of delivery, treatment options, and administration of steroids. …”
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Circumstances to Be Clarified under the Investigation of Interference into Law Enforcement Officer’s Activity by V. O. Gusieva

“…It has been established that the circumstances to be clarified during the interference in the activities of a law enforcement officer include: 1) circumstances related to the criminal offense, namely: time, place, situation and traces of a criminal offense, methods of its commission (preparation, direct commission and concealment), tools and means used during the interference, the scope of procedural costs; circumstances that are the basis for ceasing criminal proceedings; the reasons and conditions that contributed to the commission of a criminal offense; 2) circumstances related to the identity of the victim, including: socio-demographic characteristics of the victim, place of work, position held; official and functional responsibilities, the victim’s belonging to a law enforcement agency during the commission of a criminal offense against him; the type and scope of damage caused to the victim; 3) circumstances related to the identity of the offender, namely: socio-demographic data of the offender, physiological and psychological condition, gender, citizenship, financial status, place of work, the record of criminal conviction and the facts of bringing to administrative liability; the presence of dependent disabled people; the presence of guilt in the form of direct intent, the purpose of the action; circumstances that aggravate or mitigate the punishment of the offender are grounds for releasing from criminal liability or punishment that exclude criminal liability; presence of accomplices.…”
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Formyl Met-Leu-Phe-Stimulated FPR1 Phosphorylation in Plate-Adherent Human Neutrophils: Enhanced Proteolysis but Lack of Inhibition by Platelet-Activating Factor by Algirdas J. Jesaitis, Jeannie Gripentrog, Jovanka M. Voyich

“…We examined a microtiter plate format for measurement of FPR1 phosphorylation in adherent PMN at high densities and found that a new phosphosensitive FPR1 fragment, 25K-FPR1, accumulates in SDS-PAGE extracts. 25K-FPR1 is fully inhibited by diisopropylfluorophosphate PMN pretreatment but is not physiologic, as its formation failed to be significantly perturbed by ATP depletion, time and temperature of adherence, or adherence mechanism. 25K-FPR1 was minimized by extracting fMLF-exposed PMN in lithium dodecylsulfate at 4°C prior to reduction/alkylation. …”
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Local Path Planning for Unmanned Surface Vehicle Collision Avoidance Based on Modified Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization by Guoqing Xia, Zhiwei Han, Bo Zhao, Xinwei Wang

“…Since USV local path planning is completed in a short time, it is essential that the optimization algorithm can quickly obtain the optimal value. …”
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Community responses to a novel house design: A qualitative study of "Star Homes" in Mtwara, southeastern Tanzania. by Salum Mshamu, Judith Meta, Bipin Adhikari, Salma Halifa, Arnold Mmbando, Hannah Sloan Wood, Otis Sloan Wood, Thomas Chevalier Bøjstrup, Nicholas P J Day, Steven W Lindsay, Jakob Knudsen, Jacqueline Deen, Lorenz von Seidlein, Christopher Pell

“…The use of Star Homes was also observed over these four time periods between 2021 and 2023. Interviews were conducted in Swahili, transcribed, and translated into English for thematic analysis.…”
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Living in fear: How experience shapes caribou responses to predation risk by Laurie Derguy, Mathieu Leblond, Martin‐Hugues St‐Laurent

“…Future work should attempt to demonstrate whether such tactics are heritable; if so, our results would suggest that, given time, caribou living in disturbed environments would have the potential to adapt to changing levels of risk. …”
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Economic Evaluation of Fidaxomicin for the Treatment of Clostridium Difficile Infection (C. difficile-associated diarrhoea) in Ireland by Anke van Engen, Montserrat Casamayor, Fidelma Loftus, Martin Coen, Andy Garnham, Maureen Watt, Larry Lacey

“…Patients enter the model in the CDI health state and are treated either with fidaxomicin or current standard of care (oral metronidazole for non-severe CDI; vancomycin for severe CDI) for 10 days. The time horizon was 1 year. Deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity analyses were performed. …”
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The Use of Multi-Probe Modulated Laser Radiation for the Identification of Substances' Clots in the Fluid Flow by V. A. Alekseev, S. I. Yuran, V. P. Usoltsev, D. N. Shulmin

“…These approaches do not allow for real-time analysis of a moving fluid flow (flow analysis). …”
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Corneal Debridement Combined with Intrastromal Voriconazole for Recalcitrant Fungal Keratitis by Yajie Sun, Zhuo Sun, Yukai Chen, Guohua Deng

“…Thirteen patients were cured after corneal debridement. The mean healing time was (15.38 ± 7.38) days. Excluding one cured patient with optic nerve atrophy and one patient for whom the treatment failed, the mean best-corrected visual acuity after healing was (0.23 ± 0.18)LogMAR, a significant improvement compared to pretreatment (0.87 ± 0.57(LogMAR), P=0.01). …”
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An Investigation of the Effects of Some Parameters on the Shooting Performance of Air Rifle Shooters in Terms of Gender and Level of Competition by İbrahim Can, Ceren Ertürk, Serdar Bayrakdaroğlu

“…In this study, the height and body composition of the participants were measured, and then grip strength, back and leg strength, heart rate, flexibility, vital capacity, static balance, dynamic balance, and reaction time tests were performed. One (1) series, which included ten (10) shots was fired to determine the shooting success of the participants. …”
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